Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

*sigh of relief*

fortunately I fucking love this movie as well

Raiders is the movie that made me decide at a young age that Harrison Ford was my favorite actor

aliens is number one. lethal weapon cannot beat out aliens. it would be sad.

really dig last crusade but can't be angry at a movie with nazi faces melting and then exploding coming in over it

I'm gonna start an unironic slow clap here for omar. Well played.

Aliens/Die Hard #2 (pick one)
Timecop #1 (VANDAMN)

lol @ this forum getting incepted

omar little: lovable scamp

you kids are gullible, he didn't even have the header in bold on Inception

anyone who thinks about doing a poll should look at what omar dude did for future reference.

Raiders is like, movie childhood. In an "awesome adventures" way, not a "locked under the stairs" way

kingfish otm re: raiders sound design

saw it 7 or 8 times in the theaters, still remember the fwhoommp of the ark lid closing

the people under the stairs is underrated.

haha Scott beat me to the PUTS ref

i feel like we're not gonna have a lot to say about these last ones cuz we've said so much alreayd

i sincerely apologize for my grievous error in tallying the ballots. i sat here numb for the ensuing minutes unable to bring myself to post, leaving everyone hanging and scrambling for answers.

PUTS! lol yeah it was pretty good

WRONG

this is starting to feel like the last day of camp

xpost to s1ocki

raiders also v gory for PG, guy gets shot in forehead and bleeds out during early barroom fight, propeller splattering strongman blood all over the turret hatch, faces melting etc

anyone who thinks about doing a poll should look at what omar dude did for future reference.

^This. I think Fight Club would've been a respectable alternative, btw, omar.

iirc omar did the same thing in the films of the 00s poll

PG movies now are about 'off-color references' in a shrek movie.

no I think I did

xp

i feel lucky that i was a kid when movies like raiders and back to the future were coming out

totally

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/aliens.png

#2

ALIENS

James Cameron
1986
United States
(776 points, 21 votes)

the scene where they're holed up and the aliens are getting closer (the whole "20 metres... 19 metres..." etc scene), i mean, you can't really beat that.
― s1ocki

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!
― s1ocki

The first film was more of a classic horror film written with a degree of sophistication and unflinching, realistic gore (relatively speaking) that was inarguably not child friendly. The second one, though still violent and gorey, reads more like a western shoot'em up. It's not exactly Spongbob Squarepants but it's easier on the sense than the first one.

― Alex in NYC

i actually think this is a really canny film. i mean it's not the kind of thing i will watch 50 times and find something new each time, but it's pretty provocative and exciting the first few times. i think the script is very well-constructed even if it's not the most literate or even believeable thing on a line-by-line level. i think james cameron has a good story sense.

― amateur!!!st

Watched this again last night and it was as wonderful as ever. One of my top 5 movies of all time.

― krakow

"Aliens" : Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film.

the poor kids who got Donnie Darko

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!

Rethinking doing jokey poll about romcoms. Maybe just do a top 10 movies to troll ilx with poll.

"kind've"?

Oh, right. And I punk'd the '00s TV poll similarly, as I recall.

can i just say, the top three (assuming #1 is what i think it is) IS THE SAME AS MY BALLOT TOP 3

james cameron is some kind of proof that movie budgets need to be indexed to inflation over a directors career or something

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:08 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh maybe not!

poll should've been called "Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread"

man, is it really lethal weapon? really? GOAT status for mel? you realize a vote for lethal weapon is a vote for anti-semitism, right? i hope you are all proud of yourselves.

that is still the worst ilx thread title of all time for so many reasons

Aliens was in my top 5. It deserves to be up here for sure.

Alien was the first R rated film I saw, Aliens the first R rated film I saw in the theater.

man, is it really lethal weapon? really? GOAT status for mel? you realize a vote for lethal weapon is a vote for anti-semitism, right? i hope you are all proud of yourselves.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:10 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it ain't.

Would Aliens get a Pg-13 today?

and then the aliens are in the ceiling!

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love this scene. "That's impossible, that's inside the ROOM!"

congrats to "Timecop"

http://alphacounter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/timecop-splits-01.jpg

what the http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif

Alien is really such a better film, but Aliens is the best Cameron film as far as action goes, imo. He is best when he does things by the numbers and Aliens is pretty much perfect execution on that.

I'm not reading it wrong, man! Look!

Alien is really such a better film, but Aliens is the best Cameron film as far as action goes, imo. He is best when he does things by the numbers and Aliens is pretty much perfect execution on that.

― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:12 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does this mean

PVT. HUDSON 4 EVAR

http://www.actionmoviefreak.com/images/Alien/aliens-paxton.jpg

alien is better but aliens is the best